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Colonialism and Homosexuality
<P><EM>Colonialism and Homosexuality</EM> is a thorough investigation of the connections of homosexuality and imperialism from the late 1800s - the era of 'new imperialism' - until the era of decolonization. Robert Aldrich reconstructs the context of a number of liaisons, including those of famous men such as Cecil Rhodes, E.M. Forster or André Gide, and the historical situations which produced bo...
2002
Colloquial Lithuanian
<P>COLLOQUIAL LITHUANIAN is easy to use and completely up to date!</P> <P>Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Lithuanian. No prior knowledge of the language is required.</P> <P></P> <P>What makes COLLOQUIAL LITHUANIAN your best choice in personal language learning?</P> <P></P> <UL> <P> <LI>Interactiv...
2015
Corpus Linguistics for Education
<P><EM>Corpus Linguistics for Education</EM> provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to the use of corpus research-methods in the field of education. Taking a hands-on approach to showcase the applications of corpora in the exploration of educationally relevant topics, this book:</P> <P>• covers 18 key skills including corpus building, the role of frequency, different corpus methods, t...
2020
Creative Ecologies
<p>The main question of our age is how we live our lives. As we struggle with this question, we face others. How do we handle ideas and knowledge, both our own and those of others? What relationship to ideas do we want? Whose ideas do we want to be surrounded by? Where do we want to think? Most choose, or have the choice made for them, according to what family, colleagues, and friends do and say a...
2010
Death by Government
<p>This is R. J. Rummel's fourth book in a series devoted to genocide and government mass murder, or what he calls democide. He presents the primary results, in tables and figures, as well as a historical sketch of the major cases of democide, those in which one million or more people were killed by a regime. In <em>Death by Government</em>, Rummel does not aim to describe democide itself, but to ...
1997
Designing for Play
Architects, landscape designers, builders, gardeners and teachers have all at some time been called upon to design a play area. Unfortunately, this diversity has not resulted in a similar diversity of design solutions for this very problematic task. Despite a proliferation of 'how to' books on this subject, playgrounds have remained virtually the same throughout the world since their creation over...
2011
Developing Narrative Theory
<P>We live in an age of narrative: life stories are a crucial ingredient in what makes us human and, in turn, what kind of human they make us. In recent years, narrative analysis has grown and is used across many areas of research. Interest in this rapidly developing approach now requires the firm theoretical underpinning that would allow researchers to both approach such research in a reliably st...
2012
Dialogues with Michael Eigen
<P><EM>Dialogues with Michael Eigen </EM>spans 20 years of diverse interviews and interactions with the acclaimed psychologist Michael Eigen, including interlocutors from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Sweden, Israel, and the United States, published together for the first time. </P> <P>This book explores the importance of soul reveries, psychoanalytic "prayers", and cultivation of p...
2019
Dialogue Interpreting
<P>Routledge Interpreting Guides cover the key settings or domains of interpreting and equip trainee interpreters and students of interpreting with the skills needed in each area of the field. Concise, accessible and written by leading authorities, they include examples from existing interpreting practice, activities, further reading suggestions and a glossary of key terms. </P> <P>Drawing on rece...
2016
Diplomacy
<P>In the first major assessment of diplomatic dialogue since Nicolson's Diplomacy in 1939, Adam Watson traces the changing techniques of diplomacy from ancient times through the 'diplomatic society' of Europe to the present global system. In examining the conventions and institutions which help to shape the international system the author aims not so much to preserve diplomatic order which worked...
1984
Disabled Justice?
Disability offers a new lens through which to view the effectiveness of access to justice, and the inclusiveness of the justice system as a whole. This book analyses the experience of people with disabilities through the entire justice system, from making a complaint, to investigation, and through the court/tribunal process. It also considers the participation of people with disabilities in a vari...
2017
Drugs, Power, and Politics
This book explores the increasingly broad terrain of drugs in American society with an emphasis on politics. It begins with the War on Drugs initiated by President Richard Nixon in the early 1970s and extends to the current day with the vast power of the pharmaceutical industry (Big Pharma), expansion of global criminal syndicates, militarization of the drug war, and struggles between states and f...
2015
Early Mesopotamia
The roots of our modern world lie in the civilization of Mesopotamia, which saw the development of the first urban society and the invention of writing. The cuneiform texts reveal the technological and social innovations of Sumer and Babylonia as surprisingly modern, and the influence of this fascinating culture was felt throughout the Near East. <EM>Early Mesopotamia</EM> gives an entirely new ac...
1994
Ecological Masculinities
<P>Around the globe, unfettered industrialisation has marched forth in unison with massive social inequities. Making matters worse, anthropogenic pressures on Earth's living systems are causing alarming rates of thermal expansion, sea-level rise, biodiversity losses in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and a sixth mass extinction. As various disciplines have shown, rich white men in the Global No...
2019
Election Administration and the Politics of Voter Access
<P>Democratic countries vary widely in the extent to which the administration of the electoral process facilitates voter participation, showing a great deal of variation in everything from voter registration to the casting of ballots.</P> <P>This book is the first systematic study to investigate why it is easier to vote in some democracies than in others. It develops the concept of election admini...
2019
Foundations of Social Research
Choosing a research method can be bewildering. How can you be sure which methodology is appropriate, or whether your chosen combination of methods is consistent with the theoretical perspective you want to take?<br><br> <i>The Foundations of Social Research</i> links methodology and theory with great clarity and precision, showing students and researchers how to navigate the maze of conflicting te...
1998
FRP Composites for Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete Structures
<P>High strength fibre composites (FRPs) have been used with civil structures since the 1980s, mostly in the repair, strengthening and retrofitting of concrete structures. This has attracted considerable research, and the industry has expanded exponentially in the last decade. Design guidelines have been developed by professional organizations in a number of countries including USA, Japan, Europe ...
2019
Genre and Hollywood
Genre and Hollywood provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of genre. In this important new book, Steve Neale discusses all the major concepts, theories and accounts of Hollywood and genre, as well as the key genres which theorists have written about, from horror to the Western. He also puts forward new arguments about the importance of genre in understanding Hollywood cinema.<BR>Neale ...
1999
Geochemistry, Groundwater and Pollution
<P>Building on the success of its 1993 predecessor, this second edition of <SUP></SUP><EM>Geochemistry, Groundwater and Pollution </EM>has been thoroughly re-written, updated and extended to provide a complete and authoritative account of modern hydrogeochemistry.</P> <P>Offering a quantitative approach to the study of groundwater quality and the interaction of water, minerals, gases, pollutants a...
2005
Geographies of Mobilities
Over the past fifteen years or so, there has been a widespread and increasing fascination with the theme of mobility across the social sciences and humanities. Of course, geographers have always had an interest in mobility, but as yet they have not viewed this in the same 'mobility turn' as in other disciplines where it has been used to critique the standard approaches to the subjects. This text b...
2013
Geotechnical Engineering for Mine Waste Storage Facilities
The book is a comprehensive treatment of the application of geotechnical engineering to site selection, site exploration, design, operation and closure of mine waste storage facilities.<BR>The level and content are suitable as a technical source and reference for practising engineers engaged both in the design and operational management of mine waste storage facilities and for senior undergraduate...
2020
Green Criminology
<P>Over the past ten years, the study of environmental harm and 'crimes against nature' has become an increasingly popular area of research amongst criminologists. This book represents the first international, comprehensive and introductory text for green criminology, offering a concise exposition of theory and concepts and providing extensive geographical coverage, diversity and depth to the many...
2014
Handbook of Machining with Grinding Wheels
<br/><br/><P>Grinding is a crucial technology that employs specific abrasive processes for the fabrication of advanced products and surfaces. <B>Handbook of Machining with Grinding Wheels, Second Edition </B>highlights important industry developments that can lead to improved part quality, higher productivity, and lower costs. Divided into two parts, the book begins with an explanation of g...
2019
Handbook of plant growth ph as the master variable
Handbook of plant growth ph as the master variable
2019
Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body
<P><EM>Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body</EM> brings together cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects, urban planners, medical practitioners, and everyday people have applied modern ideas about health and the body to the spaces in which they live, work, and heal. The book's contributors explore North American and European understandings of the relationshi...
2018
History Of Islamic Philosophy
First published in 1993. Published here for the first time in English, this highly important work by Henry Corbin, the Islamic scholar, philosopher and historian of religion, is a definitive interpretation of traditional Islamic philosophy from the beginning to the present day. In this authoritative volume, Corbin makes clear the great themes of the doctrinal and mystical vision of lslamic philoso...
2014
Hollywood Economics
<P>Just how risky is the movie industry? Is screenwriter William Goldman's claim that "nobody knows anything" really true? Can a star and a big opening change a movie's risks and return? Do studio executives really earn their huge paychecks? </P> <P>These and many other questions are answered in <EM>Hollywood Economics</EM>. The book uses powerful analytical models to uncover the wild uncertainty ...
2003